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More marriage is a good thing

Re: “Portman need not sacrifice lucidity for his son — Being supportive doesn’t mean that senator must try to redefine marriage for everyone else, Mark Davis says,” Wednesday Viewpoints.

Davis writes, “Portman feels that since he has chosen to believe that it is the same thing for his son to marry a man as it is for him to marry a woman, that our laws should reflect the same.” But isn’t this where we stand right now? The only difference being that the underlying beliefs creating our current laws hold a different belief about marriage?

What is so wrong with allowing all to legally marry? Letting individuals, instead of the government, decide for themselves to whom that will be?

Allowing same-sex couples the right to marry will not in any way redefine marriage for you or anyone else married to an opposite-sex partner. Rather, it would only strengthen existing loving and committed relationships, which already exist, and build a stronger more stable community based upon the universal values of love and family.

Diana Farrar, Carrollton

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